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WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama rolled to re-election Tuesday night, vanquishing former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney despite a weak economy that plagued his first term and put a crimp in the middle class dreams of millions. In victory,...

WASHINGTON — A narrow path to victory was emerging for Barack Obama as his intensely tight battle with Mitt Romney went down to the wire Tuesday, the long-awaited culmination of one of the hardest-fought presidential campaigns in recent U.S....

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama and Mitt Romney storm into the last day of their long presidential contest, mounting a final thrust before Election Day, while engaging in the toughest battleground state of all — Ohio.

Greetings from an apparent hurricane magnet.
Last week, I barely escaped Florida after reporting from the swing state due to the pounding the state’s Atlantic coast was taking from the outer edges of hurricane Sandy. My flight made it out...

WASHINGTON — U.S. President Barack Obama and Mitt Romney, the man who hopes to deny him a second term in the Oval Office, were set to appear on Sunday in separate interviews on “60 Minutes,” the highly rated CBS current affairs...Read More

WASHINGTON — Mitt Romney has given Democrats plenty of support for their claim he manipulated his deductions to keep his overall 2011 federal income tax rate above a certain threshold for political purposes.Read More

JERUSALEM — It is a taboo for Israeli leaders to give even the slightest hint of favouritism in politics in the United States, Israel’s closest ally. So some Israelis are squirming over a perception that their prime minister is siding...Read More

WASHINGTON — Another day, another disaster for Mitt Romney’s presidential campaign — this time over an undercover video that shows him deriding Barack Obama voters as government freeloaders and lifelong victims.Read More

WASHINGTON — Mitt Romney, his cam­paign to become U.S. president in disarray, is attempting to get back on solid footing amid reports of bitter infighting at his Bos­ton headquarters as Barack Obama edges past his Republican rival.Read More

WASHINGTON — Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney is looking to recover from a tough week dominated by foreign policy as President Barack Obama balances campaigning for a second term with facing the spread of anti-American violence in...Read More

TAMPA, Fla. — Mitt Romney doesn’t elicit passion, as Ronald Reagan did in Detroit. Or respect, as Poppy Bush did in New Orleans. Or excitement, as W. did in Philadelphia. Or admiration, as John McCain did in St. Paul.Read More

TAMPA, Fla. — Republican Mitt Romney was making the first stop in his final push for the U.S. presidency in Louisiana, where he arrived Friday to tour the damage of hurricane Isaac a day after accepting his party’s nomination with his...Read More

TAMPA, Fla. — Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney, in the most critical speech in his campaign for the White House, sought to persuade a television audience of millions that he, not Barack Obama, was the best hope to lift the...Read More

TAMPA, Fla. — Mitt Romney was crowned the Republican presidential nominee on Tuesday at the party’s national convention, but his rare moment in the sun following a bruising primary battle was clouded by a fierce hurricane battering the...Read More

PROVIDENCE, R.I. — Forget ballot box irregularities. There’s a virtual dust-up under way over how Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney amassed more than 100,000 new Twitter followers in just one weekend.Read More